Transcriber’s Note: Obvious printing errors have been corrected. The German Constitution _SOME RECENT BORZOI BOOKS_ IN DAYS TO COME _By Walter Rathenau_ EARLY CIVILIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY _By Alexander A. Goldenweiser_ HUMAN NATURE IN POLITICS _By Graham Wallas_ HOW ENGLAND IS GOVERNED _By Rt. Hon. C. F. G. Masterman_ PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY _By James Mickel Williams_ THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT _By Dr. F. Müller-Lyer_ THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE _By James Mickel Williams_ _For sale at all bookshops_ _For further particulars address_ ALFRED A. KNOPF, _Publisher_ NEW YORK The New German Constitution _by_ René Brunet _Professor of Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Caen, formerly legal advisor to the French Embassy at Berlin_ _Translated from the French by Joseph Gollomb_ Foreword by Charles A. Beard [Illustration] New York Mcmxxii Alfred·A·Knopf COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC _Published April, 1922._ _Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York, N. Y._ _Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y._ _Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y._ MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOREWORD It is a pleasure to introduce M. Brunet to the American public. He is a French scholar of the finest type, careful, objective, and sincere. The present work on the German constitution bears the impress of these high qualities. In this volume we find the scientific spirit that was to be expected, combined with an intimate, first-hand knowledge of the forces and materials which are described. All this is very significant. The long night of the Great War was hardly over before M. Brunet began an impartial and thorough-going study of the state of affairs created in Germany by the revolution of November, 1918. If a Frenchman who suffered so much can display such good sense and sobriety, then surely American scholars ought to give more than a hearty welcome to this volume. It is an excellent beginning in the reconstruction of the republic of letters.